Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

The beginnings of all things are small.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.